the Bible clearly says that without faith....it is impossible to please God. It does nowhere say that without evidence it is impossible to "prove" God as if the Creator somehow needed proof.
And yet both the new and old testament are replete with examples of God and Jesus providing evidence. Moses was provided with evidence, as was Doubting Thomas. The Disciples saw Jesus perform miracles first hand, and in some cases were involved in the actual performance of miracles.
Yes, Faith is required. But that does not mean that God will not, or does not provide evidence. That's not at all what we see in scripture.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
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